I had my first in therapy session in 6 months. I got screened and checked in with no issue. Then she called me and I almost didn’t recognize her because of the face shield and mask and also it looked like she had lost a ton of weight. We sat 6 feet apart and just talked about what we usually talked about if we had been doing a video session. Basically just being in the same room with her and doing an actual in person session was enough to make me happy. She was distracted by her face shield and was pulling at it a lot of time. And the face shield was distracting me too. Not her being distracted by it. Just the thing in general. But it went good today and I felt safe in the building. But I don’t know. I guess I felt like I’d be on top of the world right now but maybe it was seeing her in the face shield but I guess face to face is not necessary for each session like I thought it be. She’s seeing me on Tuesday and then the morning of my surgery and then the session after that is kinda up in the air depending on how I am feeling but we are planning on meeting in person again towards the end of October. But yeah facial expression is tough with the masks on so I can see why therapists are concerned about it. I was smiling at some points and since I was wearing a mask she wasn’t getting it and then that part of the conversation just fizzled a bit.